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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Apple bucks tech slowdown, but Spotify says it is ‘choking competition’; EU investigating Google Play; Meta’s rout continues
Description: Apple’s restrictive app store rules might be the reason that audiobooks are no longer available for purchase on Spotify’s iOS app, a month after the music streaming company launched them in the US, The Verge reports. Meanwhile, European anti-trust regulators are investigating Google's Play Store, Reuters reports. And Meta has lost more than two-thirds of its value this year, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg chases the Metaverse, Bloomberg points out.
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Apple reported its fiscal fourth quarter results yesterday, beating analysts’ estimates and avoiding a slowdown that other big tech companies including Google and Meta P...